Several people have contacted me and the guadec-papers list over the last week a little worried because the due date for written papers is coming up (1 March), and we still haven't told people whether they have been accepted or not.

Because of an unforeseen delay (which we are working hard to resolve), we will not be able to tell people for sure that they are accepted until the end of next week. So we have decided to extend the deadline for submission of papers to March 15th to give people just under 4 weeks to submit papers after being notified.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

On a side note, the quality of presentations we have received this year is excellent, and due to space constraints, we have had to be hard on a great number of high quality presentations. This year's GUADEC should have the highest quality of talks of any so far. We have reduced the number of parallel streams, to have even more time and space for the stuff people really expect from GUADEC - fun, and in-person brainstorming and team building. But we also have a good mix of presentations and tutorials for GNOME newbies, to get people loving GNOME even more, and even faster. It's going to rock.